Szymon Pączek

Left Midfielder - Volga
26 Oct 2027
Tuesday
Process
Overview Personal Contract News 2 Transfers Relations Events 52 Awards Matches History

Marked for Szymon Pączek

63 Edition

The Volga Sentinel

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market11 Oct 2027

Nazar Makeev hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Volga can pretend not to have heard.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Words exchanged at Volga

Artur Murza and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Words at Volga training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Pestryakov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Nikita Kim out for 35 days

The medical room confirms 35 days on the sidelines for Nikita Kim, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout11 Oct 2027

The manager makes an example of Ivan Severjanov

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Szymon Pączek signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Szymon Pączek commits to Volga for another 3 years.

Market11 Oct 2027

Volga sign Lukas Sabitzer, one for the future

Lukas Sabitzer is 18, and Volga have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Boardroom11 Oct 2027

Volga counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Volga now.

Market11 Oct 2027

Still no ink between Volga and Danil Novikov

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Volga, another week without a signature from Danil Novikov.

In brief

Back issues
45 Edition

The Volga Sentinel

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout7 Jun 2027

Evgeny Voronin frozen out at Volga

This is not rotation. Evgeny Voronin has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Volga is pretending otherwise.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Tempers go at Volga

Andrey Kostin was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad7 Jun 2027

A row about effort at Volga

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Saplinov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom7 Jun 2027

Volga beat the market to Ilja Romaschuk from Rubin Yalta

Rubin Yalta will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Ilja Romaschuk has pre-agreed a move to Volga, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

The dugout7 Jun 2027

No hiding place for Artur Murza

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Artur Murza, and the manager let it.

Market7 Jun 2027

A long bet from Volga on Szymon Pączek

He is 19, and nobody at Volga signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market7 Jun 2027

Volga sign Noel Sigurdsson, one for the future

Noel Sigurdsson is 18, and Volga have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Volga are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout7 Jun 2027

Alexandr Saplinov gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Alexandr Saplinov is on it.

In brief